Review by Kate Devlin

2001

Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris                                

The title was taken from William Craig’s 1973 non- fiction book “Enemy At The Gates; The Battle for Stalingrad”. The film is loosely based a duel mentioned in the book between the real life Soviet sniper Vassily Grigoryevich Zaitsev and a German sharpshooter ,Erwin Konig mentioned in the 1999 WWII fiction novel “War of The Rats” by David Robbins during the Battle of Stalingrad. Continue reading